ANTH 1101 Food and culture 9 October Cultural values and expression often cluster around cuisine Claude Levi Strauss 1908 2010 and structuralist anthropology o Focuses on binaries through the stripping away of culture o Structuralism criticized as reductive o Nonetheless Levi Strauss has a lot of say about food and culture o Nature v culture animals v humans livestock v pets raw v cooked purity v pollution o This doesn t apply well to many things but binaries in food tend to work livestock v pets and raw v cooked o Iron Chef violates what we consider food in some cases douchebag Bobby Flay Stands on the cutting board Feet are horrendously dirty and cutting board is sacred o Tell me what you eat and I ll tell you who you are Jean Anthelme The meaning of food Brillat Savarin 1825 o Makah whales The Makah people gave up more than 90 percent of its land in Commercial whaling depleted the whale population so Makah order to continue whaling stopped on their own in 1920 Grey whale removed from endangered species list in 1994 so Makah whaling began again in 1999 In 2000 the Makah were ordered to stop whaling o Hawaiian taro Kalo Hawaiian word for taro Poi is cooked kalo Haloa naka kalo is the older brother of haloa the first man Growing kalo requires cold fast flowing water which diverts water from other uses municipal in particular Garbology the carful observation and study of the waste products produced by a population of people in order to learn about that population s activities in areas such as waste disposal and food consumption o Man never lies to his garbage heap Franz Boas o William Rathje and the University of Arizona Garbology Program Began in 1973 Applied tools of archaeology to modern garbage Household garbage analysis Student volunteers sort garbage into 130 categories Shit ton of information recorded in detail People say they eat more vegetables than they do recycle more than they say and drink much more than they claim Landfills
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